In an expectation that the ties between the two nations improve after the Lok Sabha elections, an official in the Donald Trump administration said the relationship between India and the US flourished under Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The first ever India-US two-plus-two dialogue, held in New Delhi last year, took the relationship forward, said the senior official.
In response to a question on five years of the Modi government and the recent visit of India’s Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale to the US, the official said, “US-India relationship has really flourished… since Modi took power.”
“The highlight, I would say, was Prime Minister Modi’s visit to the White House in the June of 2017 where a lot of progress was made on the relationship. I would just say that the visit by Foreign Secretary Gokhale was just the latest illustration of the positive trajectory that the relationship is on,” the official said.
“We look forward to working with whoever is elected in this (general) election,” the senior official said, adding there is “a lot of strategic logic” to the India-US relationship.
Also he said that the US expects to improve the ties and is looking for ways of cooperation in the Indo-Pacific region in particular on Washington’s converging strategic interest in that part of the world.